With election night just weeks away, an old feud is coming back to haunt Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges.

It's in the form of a lawsuit, filed Friday in Hennepin County by Minneapolis police Lt. John Delmonico. He says Hodges made defamatory and libelous statements about him – by calling him untrustworthy and racist.

The two have a long history, but Delmonico is specifically talking about the time Hodges blocked his promotion to head of the police department's 4th Precinct, publicly overruling the police chief's decision.